Miguel Romero

Miguel Romero: Cuban Jazz Funk

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by AAJ Staff
July 1, 2001

In Cuba, where musical studies take on the force of a “calling" in spite of the political insensitivity to the arts, the spirit of the music comes through with a pulse created from polyrhythmic complexity. The mystery of the music is how the combination of different and sometimes opposing rhythms, often non-notatable, can combine into a synthesis that appeals directly to the hearts of the listeners, as does all of the music stemming from African drumming. With numerous influences converging ...